I am a Mexican Canadian cross-disciplinary artist. I completed an MA in Fine Arts at UAL’s Chelsea College of Arts in 2020-2021 (graduating with First Class Honours). I completed a BFA in Drawing and Painting and minored in Social Sciences (I graduated from both with First Class Honours and Distinction) at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada. My interest in diverse cultures and passion for informed research helped me win a coveted place at OCAD University’s self-directed Florence Program, where I studied from 2017-2018. In 2017, I won a scholarship to study Chinese culture at Jiangnan University, China.
My dedication to my practice has led to 40 national and international exhibitions, including 4 solo exhibitions, 7 large-scale festivals, and 15 juried exhibitions, 12 international publications, a published paper along with an award in academic writing, and 21 awards in Fine Art. I exhibited at the Archäologisches Museum Innsbruck, The British Library, The Bloomsbury Festival, MAFA International Festival, featured in a ‘LATE AT TATE’ reel, Toronto Biennial of Art, and Kitchener’s TheMuseum.
In 2022, I was honoured to be the artist creating the principal Ofrenda for the El Día de Muertos Festival in London, UK, by the Mexican Embassy & UK Mexican Arts Society. In 2021, I served as the Artistic Visual Director for the Shades of Light Event at the Bloomsbury Festival. Since 2022 I have worked in the John Golding Artistic Trust playing an integral role in organising a highly anticipated John Golding Retrospective in close collaboration with prestigious institutions like Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City.
At the core of my artistic journey lies a fundamental question: How can I, as an artist, contribute to and support an equitable, sustainable, and diverse world? My work contemplates the cosmic grandeur and fragility of our shared planetary home. The statement “we want to do something for the environment” implies that we as humanity are somehow separate or external from the environment: We are interwoven–without any sense of separation–into the material and psychological fabric of the Earth. I propose that we shift our perspective of our collective entity, much like any other unified conscious being, breaking down the illusion of individualism and enabling us to mourn our past, cherish the present, and forge a positive future, leading us back to the collective consciousness. Borders dissolve as power courses through interconnected veins, making these 21st-century struggles intrinsically global in nature.
The notion of a separate and forthcoming future is merely a myth; true change can only occur in the present moment. Urgently, our world calls for a decolonization of the mind, a process of dismantling colonial thoughts, preferences, and values that perpetuate allegiance to purely so- called rational, dominating ideals. In response my work strives to contribute to the emergence of an equilibrium that reveres vulnerability, embraces transformation, nurtures collective consciousness, and honours the cosmic sacredness that binds us all.
